- About part 1,000,000 other people attended the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Competition, the second-largest crowd within the competition’s historical past.
- The Rolling Stones headlined following more than one canceled performances in earlier years.
- Different performers incorporated the Foo Combatants, Chris Stapleton, the Killers, Queen Latifah, Fantasia and Vampire Weekend.
An additional day and the entice of an look by means of the Rolling Stones driven attendance on the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Competition to a part 1,000,000 other people, organizers stated Monday.
That was once the second-highest attendance within the competition’s historical past — simply in the back of the 600,000 attendees in 2001. In 2023, greater than 460,000 other people handed during the competition’s gates.
“This 12 months’s Competition introduced as it appears that evidently as ever the wonderful thing about Jazz Fest,” competition manufacturer Quint Davis stated in a observation. “Looking at the Rolling Stones carry out with New Orleans and Louisiana stars Irma Thomas and Dwayne Dopsie was once to witness the ability of the Competition to reveal the relationship of our tradition to one of the largest tune of our time.”
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From left to proper: Ron Wooden, Dwayne Dopsie, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Steve Jordan carry out with the Rolling Stones throughout the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Competition on Would possibly second, 2024, on the Honest Grounds Race Path in New Orleans. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
The ancient, sold-out look of the Rolling Stones final week was once the triumphant conclusion of a multi-year effort to deliver the band to the development, after cancelations in 2019 and 2021. Few competition performances had been extra expected, or even fewer, if any, higher won by means of fanatics, Davis stated in a observation.
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Different 2024 competition highlights incorporated Jon Batiste’s only-in-New-Orleans set that paid homage to town’s piano legends, together with Professor Longhair, Fat Domino and Allen Toussaint. There was once additionally the Foo Combatants’ electrical go back to the development in addition to appearances by means of Chris Stapleton, the Killers, Queen Latifah, Fantasia and Vampire Weekend.
Subsequent 12 months’s match is scheduled for April 24-Would possibly 4.
